Top 100 Preach Quotes
#1. But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.
James Gilmour
#2. Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.
Karl Barth
#3. The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?
Ann Voskamp
#4. Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.
Pope Francis
#5. When I preach - no matter where it is in the world - I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.
Billy Graham
#6. Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
Max Lucado
#7. Get up there, where 'there' is ... get up in front and ... preach your guts out!
David Asscherick
#8. I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.
Stephen Curry
#9. Pastor Face Your Business" When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.
Fred B. Craddock
#11. I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
#12. I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
Arianna Huffington
#13. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
Henri Nouwen
#14. We all have a choir to preach to; people who will receive and believe immediately, and people who will spread the word. However, those of us who are messengers want to reach those in need of a change of heart and mind. We need the choir to grow.
Robin Caldwell
#15. All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Thomas Paine
#16. I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
John Bunyan
#17. Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#18. Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.
John Wesley
#19. Jesus is not asking you to sell the gospel; Jesus is asking you to preach the gospel. Mark 16:15
Felix Wantang
#21. Don't preach. Don't teach. Don't judge. Take a loved child by the hand and explore something fascinating together.
Dee Hock
#22. We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.
Paul Washer
#23. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
Eric Hoffer
#24. In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.
Matthew Reilly
#25. If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. - F. B. MEYER
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare
#29. From that time Jesus began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Anonymous
#30. Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.
Brigham Young
#31. The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.
Oswald J. Smith
#32. I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audience in any situation over which we had control. This was long before the Supreme Court decision of 1954. I felt this was the Christian position and I could do no other.
Billy Graham
#33. Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love
Charles Bukowski
#34. If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
Leonard Ravenhill
#35. I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.
Charles Capps
#36. I can hear you preach about freedom,
yet your motive that makes me listened.
Toba Beta
#37. Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
Antonio Vieira
#38. We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price
but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.
Bill Maher
#39. There was one thing I was never going to do
no way: preach at a crusade!
Franklin Graham
#40. The problem is, even when we preach the Gospel correctly, then we go to this thing on how to invite men and it's not biblical or historical. We get them to jump through some evangelical hoops and say, "yes" to the appropriate questions and we pope-ishly announce them to be saved.
Paul Washer
#41. Preaching is asking people to do what you yourself failed to do and expect they fail so that you can come back and preach at them the next day
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#42. If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments ... ?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#43. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
Charles Spurgeon
#44. It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
David Blunkett
#45. Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#46. I cannot preach my Master even as I myself know Him, and what I know of Him is very little compared with the matchlessness of His grace. Would that I knew more of Him, and that I could tell it out better!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. Nurses nurse
and teachers teach
and tailors mend
and preachers preach
and barbers trim
and chauffeurs haul
and parents get to do it all.
Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
#48. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
Rachel Caine
#49. We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
#50. The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther
#52. Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
William James
#53. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.
Owen Strachan
#54. On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case ...
Mother Teresa
#55. To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
Confucius
#56. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
Robert Moffat
#57. Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.
Karen Armstrong
#58. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace
#59. In that way, we Jews can see Christianity as God's chosen instrument for redeeming the world from paganism, and Christians can recognize their obligation to preach the message of Christianity to the world, but not to the Jewish people, who had that message before they did.
Harold S. Kushner
#60. There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.
Kurt Hahn
#61. Since much of American taxes prior to 1763 went to support the local clergy, one humorist suggested the opportunity to vote on that. If the minister was turned out, he could open a tavern and preach to his customers if he served them liquor.
Colin G. Calloway
#62. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Gabriel Zaid
#63. So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach
Jimmy Buffett
#64. Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.
Patrick Califia
#65. The prophets preach ... that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
Matthew Fox
#66. Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked.
Oswald J. Smith
#67. Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly ... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F.L. Lucas
#68. But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
Bill Murray
#69. The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.
Edwin Hodge
#70. Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is
Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
Mary Augusta Ward
#71. Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean Howells
#72. You should never nag, whine, preach or plead with your dog because this is not the way leaders behave
Lisa Steffens
#73. It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.
William Tyndale
#74. Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul David Tripp
#75. Preach little, Pray more;
But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
Ankit Mishra
#76. Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#77. Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like air, water and food, is necessary for our survival and growth. But many believers regard prayer as an optional activity.
Larry Lea
#78. Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler
#79. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#80. A fool is he that comes to preach or prate,
When men with swords their right and wrong debate.
[It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa,
Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
Torquato Tasso
#81. I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.
George Whitefield
#82. Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real.
LaNina King
#83. With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#84. We must give more and expect less, respect people as human beings and do what we preach!
Rossana Condoleo
#85. Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
Don Cheadle
#86. I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
Khalil Gibran
#87. In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.
Ruth Benedict
#88. The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.
John Wycliffe
#89. That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#90. You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
John Piper
#91. Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"
Swami Vivekananda
#92. Human eloquence or persuasiveness of speech are the mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent; the prophet may preach to the bones in the valley, but it must be the breath from Heaven which will cause the slain to live.
D.L. Moody
#93. If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
Jack Hyles
#94. I am not mad: I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;
William Shakespeare
#95. 'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
Michael Palin
#96. I saw my father preach in Madison Square Garden, and I was a little embarrassed, I think, the first time I heard him preach. That's my father up there, and I kind of slid down in my chair.
Franklin Graham
#97. Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
Andy Stanley
#98. Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity," Ernest continued. "You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value - to the capitalist class.
Jack London
#99. Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
Charles Grandison Finney
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